Programme

Workshop -Media Populism and European democracy

Thursday 8^th November

12:30
Registration, Coffee and Sandwich

13:00
Introduction: Stig Hjarvard and Hans-Jörg Trenz

Panel 1: Media and Populism: The conceptual link

13:15 -13:40
Benjamin Krämer (University of München) "Populism and the media: from society to institutions to biographies."

13:40-14:05
Cláudia Álvares ('Lusofona University and CIES-ISCTE-IUL' ) ‘Mediated Populism and the Affective Turn: Beyond Left and Right'

14:05-14:30
Hilmar Mjelde (University of Bergen) "Crowning Moments: Transformative Populist Use of the Media and the Case of Carl I. Hagen and the 1987 No-Confidence Motion".

14.30-15.00
Discussion

15:00-15:30
Coffee Break

Panel 2: Country Perspectives

15:30-15:55
Jostein Gripsrud (University of Bergen) “Norway’s Progress Party: Populism and tabloidization”

15:55-16:20
Desire Schmuck (University of Vienna) „Effects of Right-wing Populist Political Communication in Austria: An Audience-Centered Approach“

16:20-16:45
Miklos Sukosd (University of Copenhagen) "Populist communication and authoritarian media policies: the Russification of the Hungarian media system under the Orban regime".

16:45-17:15
Discussion

19:00
Dinner

Friday 9^th November

09:15-10:15
Frank Esser (University of Zurich). Populism in the mass media and the social media: What a four-year research project in Zurich has taught us".

Panel 3 Fake News and Social Media Populism

10:15-10:35
Asimina Michailidou (University of Oslo) "#EUlies, #EUfacts: public notions of justice and expertise in the era of populism and 'fake news'"

10:35-10:55
Michael Hameleer (University of Amsterdam) Understanding the Persuasiveness of Populist and Post-factual Communication: A Social Identity Perspective on Populism, Partisan Misinformation and Polarization in Today’s Fragmented Media Society"

10:55-11:15
Discussion

11:15-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-11:50
Verena K. Brändle (University of Copenhagen) and Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham): ‘Politicisizing EU Citizenship: Social Media as a Site for Mobilisation during Brexit

11:50-12:10
Hans-Jörg Trenz (University of Copenhagen) and Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham) Participatory Populism: Online Discussion Forums on Mainstream News Sites During the 2014 European Parliament Election

12:10-12:30
Discussion

12:30-13:00
Concluding remarks (Stig Hjarvard and Hans-Jörg Trenz), Future plans

13:00
Lunch